porron

See also: porrón

English

A porron in use

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish porrón, from Catalan porró, possibly from porro (“leek”) or porra (“mace (weapon)”) because of its bulbous shape.

Noun

porron (plural porrons)

1. A glass container for wine for table use, with a long neck at the top for filling and holding and a long thin spout at the side to enable pouring into the mouth from a distance
   • 1938 April, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter I, in Homage to Catalonia, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC:

     A porron is a sort of glass bottle with a pointed spout from which a thin jet of wine spurts out whenever you tip it up; you can thus drink from a distance, without touching it with your lips, and it can be passed from hand to hand. I went on strike and demanded a drinking-cup as soon as I saw a porron in use.

   • 2013 May 6, Kate Parham, “From Spain, a party in a porron”, in Washington Post‎^[1], archived from the original on 2013-12-24:

     Turns out the group was enjoying a porron, a communal drinking vessel native to Spain.

Translations

glass container for wine

• Catalan: porró (ca) m
• Spanish: porrón m

Further reading

• porron on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Finnish

Noun

porron

1. genitive singular of porro